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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Goldschmidt Party nightmare continues for Nurse Amanda

Portland City council challenger Mary Nolan cheerily announced this morning that she's cracked the $100,000 mark in campaign fundraising. $500 from a Beam guy, $1,000 from a Grubb & Ellis guy, $2,000 from Katy Durant -- the crushing of incumbent Amanda Fritz by the Usual Suspects is going to be spectacular.

It would be nice if the electorate reacted to the Nolan cash avalanche in a fashion similar to that of the Potter supporters with the Francesconi cash avalanche.

Sadly, I doubt it will happen. No enough folks are paying attention.

Though no de jure corporate entity is involved here - "Neil's Hangers On, Inc." is not incorporated - this is a parallel to the Costco / Safeway attempt to buy the Washington 1183 inititive, and of the same ilk as the Citizens Untied group.

Looking at this thing for the contributors, who the heck are (in order of donation size):
Doctors for Healthy Communities (5493)
Coalition for a Healthy Oregon (4749)
Douglas County Physicians PAC (12848)
Oregon Health Care Association PAC (275)
These are about $30K worth of contributions.

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 155
At this date last year: 241
Total run in 2015: 271
In 2014: 401
In 2013: 257
In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269